Liquid-measure.



No. 755,455. PATENTED MAR. 22, 1904. P. J. DOYLE.

' LIQUID MEASURE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2, 1903.

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UNITED STATEs Patented March .22, 1904.

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LIQUID-MEASURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,465, dated March 22, 1904;. Application filed September 2, 1903. Serial No. 171,618. (N 111011610 T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PATRICK J. DOYLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Spencer, in the county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid-Measures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a measure of such construction that I am enabled to withdraw therefrom any of the customary aliquot parts thereof.

I have preferred to describe and illustrate my improvements as applied to a gallon-measure in such a manner that I can withdraw therefrom accurately and expeditiously either a quart, two quarts, three quarts, or a whole gallon. It is obvious that the receptacle might be so divided that I could draw therefrom any other aliquot part of its contents.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows my invention in elevation. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof, showing the interior construction of the measure and the various valves and drawoff cocks. Fig. 3 is a plan view, and Fig. 1 is an enlarged view, of the main draw-off cock and its operating-lever.

The vessel is shown as being substantially rectangular in cross-section, though it is obvious that it might be circular or of any other desired shape.

The numeral 1 designates the vessel, of which 2 is the bottom thereof, and 8 a partition dividing the vessel into two chambers 13 14 of equal capacity. The vessel is interiorly provided midway of its height with a rib or flange 1. At the base of the partition 3 is a small opening 5, provided with a valve 6, which latter may be operated by a handle or lever 7, attached thereto and pivoted at 8 on a lug projecting from the partition 3. In the bottom of chamber 14: is a valved outlet 9, which may be opened and closed by means of the operating-lever 1O 11. In the bottom of chamber 13 is a draw-off cock 12.

The structure as described may be operated as follows: Suppose the draw-offs 9 and 12 are closed, as well as the opening 5, and the vessel (a gallon-measure) is filled with liquid. If it be desired to draw off a quart of liquid, either valve 9 or 12 may be opened and the liquid allowed to run out until the level of the liquid remaining in the particular chamber stands at the flange 4. If two quarts be desired, the flow is continued until all the contents of one of the chambers is withdrawn. One chamber is now empty and the other full. If it be now desired to draw off an additional quart, the cock in the bottom of the filled chamber may be opened and the liquid run down to the flange in the same way as before or the cook first used may be temporarily closed and valve 6 opened, whereby the contents of the filled chamber will flow into the empty one until the liquid stands at the same level in both at the flange-when 6 may then be closed and a quart drawn off from either chamber. A whole gallon may be drawn ofi at once by opening 6 and either 9 0112, when the whole contents of the vessel will flow therefrom.

Having fully described the construction of my invention and its mode of operation, I claim as follows:

1. A portable measuring-receptacle, uncovered at its top for the admission of liquid and adapted for use independently of any other receptacle, provided with a vertical partition, an opening provided with a valve at the bottom of said partition, and a suitable draw-off valve, substantially as described. I

2. A portable measuring-receptacle entirely open at its top and adapted for use independently of any other receptacle, provided with an interior graduation-mark, a vertical partition, an opening provided with a valve in the bottom of said partition and means for manually operating said valve, substantially as described.

3. A portable measuring-receptacle, adapted for use independently of any other receptacle, provided with a vertical partition dividing the same into two chambers of equal capacity, said receptacle being uncovered at its top whereby liquid may be introduced into either chamber independently, an outlet provided with a valve at the bottom of one of said chambers, and an opening at the bottom of said partition having a valve, substantially as described.

4.. A portable measuring vessel provided bers, and means for manipulating said cocks,

substantially as described.

5. A portable measuring vessel provided with a vertical partition dividing the vessel into two chambers, said partition having an opening in the bottom thereof provided with a valve and an extension-lever whereby the valve may be operated from the top of the receptacle, substantially as described.

6. An open-top measuring vessel adapted for use independently of any other receptacle and divided into two chambers, each of said chambers being subdivided by a suitable graduation mark, drawoffs provided with valves whereby a quantity of liquid corresponding to the capacity of any chamber may be drawn 01f, substantially as described.

7 A measuring vessel provided with a partition dividing the vessel into two chambers of equal capacity, said partition having an opening in the bottom thereof provided with a valve, a draw-off for each chamber, an interior graduation-mark intermediate the top and bottom of the vessel, and extension-levers for operating the valve in the partition and one of the draw-ofis, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PATRICK J. DOYLE.

Witnesses:

THos. A. CASEY, JOHN J. DARMODY. 

